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TIL about The Shaggs, an all female rock band from New Hampshire who despite being remembered for their seeming ineptitude to play rock, were called “better than The Beatles” by Frank Zappa and made an album Kurt Cobain considered one of the best of all time.

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ZDp4 TIL that in 2002 a fire broke out at a girls school in Saudi Arabia and the religious police prevented girls from escaping because rescuers would be sexually enticed by the ‘improperly covered’ girls. 16 died.
WkWKN TIL that in 1972, two grad students at MIT invented Proton-Enhanced Nuclear Induction Spectroscopy, a technique for transferring spin orientation from one atomic nucleus to another. Yes, they chose this name specifically for the acronym.
0lN5 TIL that the US Postal Inspection Service has a list of members who have died in the line of duty. Half of them have the cause of death listed as “Gunfire”.
j6jZv TIL that termites are closely related to cockroaches, not ants, and their similar social structure is an instance of convergent evolution
Wkd0L TIL that cows are fed a magnet to prevent metal objects from damaging their digestive system. It stays there for life.